Protest rocks NASS over financial autonomy Judiciary
Protest over the non-implementation of the financial autonomy for the judiciary triggered unusual atmosphere at the entrance of the National Assembly in Abuja on Tuesday. […]
Judiciary
How Supreme Court Justice, Sylvester Ngwuta died
JudgeBy Ebere AgozieAbuja, March 7, 2021 (NAN) Supreme Court Justice, Sylvester Ngwuta is dead. Sources at the apex court confirmed that Ngwuta died in the […]
Boy chased to death: Panel summons two NSCDC officers, concludes 21 out of 34 cases
The Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Police Brutality, Human Rights Violations and Related Extra Judicial Killings on Friday ordered a subpoena compelling two officers of […]
Court dissolves woman’s 14-year-old marriage over husband’s addiction to alcohol
An Ile-Tuntun Customary Court in Ibadan on Tuesday, dissolved a 14-year-old marriage between a hair dresser, Morufat Erioye on grounds that her husband, Ahmed was […]
Rape: Jigawa High Court sentences man to life imprisonment, another to 21 years
The Jigawa State High Court No. 6 (sitting as vacation court) at Dutse had on Monday 1st February, 2021, convicted and sentenced one Suleiman Ahmed, […]
EndSARS protest and its many casualties, by Isa Ismail
More than one month after the street protests that jolted the Nigerian nation, the dusk is yet to settle on the ripples of the agitation […]
Kano Court remands man for alleged murder
By Ramatu Garba A Senior Magistrates’ Court sitting in Kano State, on Monday ordered that Auwal Abdullahi, 18, be remanded in correctional facility for alleged […]
Buhari seeks judicial reforms, one-year time limit for criminal cases
President Muhammadu Buhari Wednesday called for urgent judicial reforms in the country to address the slow pace of trials in the courts. The president made […]
High Court convicts pirates in hijack of vessel -Navy
By Doris Esa The Federal High Court (FHC) Port Harcourt has convicted 3 of the 9 accused persons who on March 21 hijacked an Equatorial […]
NIS recruitment tragedy: Abba Moro and the grace of innocence
Muhammed Nuru Yakubu For senator Abba Moro -former minister for Interior under the Jonathan administration and now a senator from Benue state, penultimate week must […]
Court acquires man of armed robbery charge 5 years after
By Eniola Agboola An Igbosere High Court in Lagos State on Tuesday discharged and acquitted a man, Jelili Dimeji, of a four-count armed robbery charge […]
PDP Abuja protest ends abruptly as members escape death
The protest embarked upon, on Monday, in Abuja by the leaders and members of the Peoples Democratic Party against the judgement of the Supreme Court […]
CJN Tanko and the bigotry of numbers
By Majeed Dahiru The rise to power of President Muhammadu in 2015 birthed a far right political culture that sparked off a wave of ethno-geographic […]